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To: marshmallow
Looks to be your basic American "mutt evangelical" megachurch.
is compatible with Catholicism. It is not. The congregation believes the following about the Eucharist:

"Our Beliefs". The Trinity is described, to my ears, somewhat oddly. "The eternal triune God reveals Himself to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being."

I suspect someone is being sloppy. Ahhh, here we go:

Christian baptism is the immersion of a believer in water in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. It is an act of obedience symbolizing the believer's faith in a crucified, buried, and risen Saviour, the believer's death to sin, the burial of the old life, and the resurrection to walk in newness of life in Christ Jesus. It is a testimony to his faith in the final resurrection of the dead. The Lord's Supper is a symbolic act of obedience whereby members of the church, through partaking of the bread and the fruit of the vine, memorialize the death of the Redeemer and anticipate His second coming.

Baptism spoken of in terms of a "symbolic act of obedience" is typical of that sort of church.

As to whether the man is a Roman Catholic, I'd say he's not.

32 posted on 11/03/2010 9:36:49 AM PDT by Lee N. Field ("What is your only comfort, in life and death?" "That I an not my own, but belong, body and soul...")
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To: Lee N. Field

“Baptism spoken of in terms of a “symbolic act of obedience” is typical of that sort of church.”

Where does it say this?


62 posted on 11/03/2010 11:43:00 AM PDT by blue-duncan
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